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Capacitor by Ionic vs Play Framework

A side-by-side look at Capacitor by Ionic and Play Framework. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Capacitor by Ionic

Capacitor by Ionic

Development

Capacitor is a cross-platform app runtime that allows developers to build web apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript and deploy them to native iOS, Android and web. It includes a rich set of web APIs and allows wrapping web code into native code using plugins.

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Play Framework

Play Framework

Development

The Play Framework is an open-source web application framework that follows the model–view–controller architectural pattern. It is written in Scala and Java and allows rapid application development by using convention over configuration, hot code reloading and display of compilation errors in the browser.

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